This soap is high in coconut oil which makes the suds fluffy. It is good for washing dishes and hands. It is good for shower as well. However, if a milder soap is preferred, our Shea Butter Soap would be the way to go.

 

Ingredients:

72.60 oz. Organic Unrefined Cold Pressed Coconut Oil (64.29%)

40.10 oz. Extra Virgin Olive Oil (35.71%)

42.56 oz. distilled Water

17.68 oz. Food Grade Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)

Total oils is 112 oz.

Lye discount is 5%

Directions:

Weight the water and set aside.

Hear goggles and gloves. Weight the Sodium Hydroxide and take both the lye and the water outside or to a well ventilated area.

Carefully poor the lye in the water while stirring slowly with a wooden or silicone spoon.

Hold your breath and stir.

Step away to breath and return to stir the lye solution for few seconds.

Make sure pets and children steer clear from the lye solution.

Weight the coconut oil and pour in the soap pan and heat to medium heat to melt. Once most of the solid melted, turn the stove off.

Weigh the olive oil and add to the coconut oil after the coconut oil melted. Stir the oils with a long spatula.

Put the google and gloves on and gently poor the lye solution in the soap pot on top of the oils. There is no need to let both the oils and lye solution to cool down to the same temperature. They can be warm. Just make sure the stove is off under the soap pot. The soap is cold process.

Stir the mixture together for few seconds.

Wash the lye solution container and its spoon with gloves on.

Wash the container used to weigh the oils.

Back to the soap mixture, stir gently with gloves and goggles on.

Stir for 5 minutes before stepping away. If the time is available, stir constantly for 30 minutes otherwise, stir time to time.

Within one hour, the soap mixture would thicken up and ready to pour into the soap mold.

If the mold can leak, wait for the soap mixture to be very thick before pouring.

Cover the soap mold. Let the soap undisturbed for 24 hours.

After 24 hours, touch the soap. If it is hard, take the soap out of the mop and cut in pieces.

Lay the bars in a ventilated area to dry for at least 3 weeks.

After 3 weeks, store the soap bars in a box where they can breathe and continue to dry.

The soap is ready to be used when it is at least 3 weeks old. The older the soap, the milder it is and the longer it lasts.